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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Seven ways social nets like Facebook and LinkedIn are 'truly evil'

10 Ways To Know You're in the Twitter Twilight Zone | Stuff I Learned from My 3 Biggest Network Screw Ups

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Seven ways social nets like Facebook and LinkedIn are 'truly evil'
Social networks are a major resource for hackers trying to capture valuable corporate data or run amok inside business networks, the information security director of a major online trading firm told Security Standard attendees. Read More


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A Green Architectural Strategy That Puts IT in the Black
Green computing tends to focus on individual servers and devices, but even greater benefits can be realized with an architectural strategy that leverages green computing practices across the data center. Read More!

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Geolocation and Application Delivery
Both business and technical stakeholders will find value and a broad range of uses for the highly accurate data available from a trusted third-party geolocation provider, especially when the data is integrated into a Unified Application and Data Delivery platform. Read now!

10 Ways To Know You're in the Twitter Twilight Zone
Too many tweeple go to some bizarre dimension when using Twitter. Here are my favorite examples of Twitter behavior gone wrong. Read More

Stuff I Learned from My 3 Biggest Network Screw Ups
My grandmother used to tell me that while painful, mistakes always make the most interesting stories and teach the best lessons. I certainly do not go out to an account hoping to trash out someone's network so I can learn stuff. If that was the case, the only thing I would learn is resume building 101. Read More


WHITE PAPER: NetGear

NETGEAR® Stream Scanning Technology
Security solutions must keep a company safe from the constant barrage of Internet-based threats without slowing down the speed of business. Where other technologies have failed, NETGEAR Stream Scanning architecture successfully achieves this balance. Learn more.

Did Apple swat Newsday's iPad app ad off YouTube?
An item here this morning noted that the most-posted version of Newsday's funny iPad app commercial - the one where a Dad uses an iPad as a flyswatter, with predictable results -- had gone missing from YouTube. Read More

How I got thrown out of an NSA party
For the National Security Agency, America's high-tech spy agency and guru for military information security, inviting the tech media to attend its first-ever NSA Trusted Computing Conference and Exposition was no easy decision. Read More


WHITE PAPER: IBM

Virtualization Reduces Costs and Complexity
The paper explains virtualization in the context of mid-sized businesses and shows how they can reduce costs, improve services and simplify management. Click to Continue

BMC CEO Bob Beauchamp: 'Waiting 90 days for a server to get provisioned isn't going to work'
As if managing your current IT operations wasn't challenging enough, along comes cloud computing to plaster on another layer of complexity. How does your current management strategy need to evolve to support private cloud? How do you seamlessly control a hybrid private-public cloud? Read More

Going where no cameras have gone before
The video surveillance industry is undergoing a sea change as older analog systems give way to IP-based systems. Read More

The 'Beauty of the Web' in the eye of the beholder
Tomorrow, I'll be in San Francisco for Microsoft's launch event for the beta version of Internet Explorer 9, which is competing with Microsoft's Phone 7 for buzz in the tech world these days. For those of you unable to make the event, you can watch it online. Read More



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